The true believer : thoughts on the nature of mass movements /
A stevedore on the San Francisco docks in the 1940s, Hoffer wrote philosophical treatises examining mass movements--from Christianity in its infancy to the national uprisings of modern times. His analysis of the psychology of mass movements is a brilliant and frightening study of the mind of the fan...
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| 245 | 1 | 4 | |a The true believer : |b thoughts on the nature of mass movements / |c Eric Hoffer. |
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| 504 | |a Includes bibliographical references (pages 169-177). | ||
| 505 | 0 | |a Part 1. The appeal of mass movements -- The desire for change -- The desire for substitutes -- The interchangeability of mass movements -- Part 2. The potential converts -- The role of the undesirables in human affairs -- The poor. The new poor ; The abjectly poor ; The free poor ; The creative poor ; The unified poor -- Misfits -- The inordinately selfish -- The ambitious facing unlimited opportunities -- Minorities -- The bored -- The sinners -- Part 3. United action and self-sacrifice -- Preface -- Factors promoting self-sacrifice. Identification with a collective whole ; Make-believe ; Deprecation of the present ; "Things which are not" ; Doctrine ; Fanaticism ; Mass movements and armies -- Unifying agents. Hatred ; Imitation ; Persuasion and coercion ; Leadership ; Action ; Suspicion ; The effects of unification -- Part 4. Beginning and end -- Men of words -- The fanatics -- The practical men of action -- Good and bad mass movements. The unattractiveness and sterility of the active phase ; Some factors which determine the length of the active phase ; Useful mass movements. | |
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